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How to Discover Your Inner Truth with Kristine Madera
Your inner truth has nothing to do with beliefs or ideas about truth, it is your unique vibrational signature puzzle piece in the collective All–Find out how to discover your inner truth in this Conversation with Consciousness.
How to Live from Your Inner Authority with Kristine Madera
We are taught from birth to transfer our inner authority to external authority structures. It’s time to re-claim our inner authority and dismantle the structures which can also help dismantle self-serving structures we have given it over to.
The Catch-22 Trap of Self-Awareness with Kristine Madera
Self-awareness keeps you focused on the self rather than awareness itself. Discover how to expand to the next level of awareness in this episode
The Illusion of So-Called Reality with Linda Lang
Reality as we experience it is an illusion. Learn how to transcend it in this conversation with Linda Lang
Why to Trust Feelings and Question Emotions with Katie Kieffer
Feelings come from Intuition; Emotions come from conditioning. Learn the critical difference between them and how to use them in this episode with Katie Kieffer
Trigger Alert How to Dismantle Your Emotional Triggers with Dr Jenn Hatfield
Trigger Alert! Learn how to identify your emotional triggers, how to choose your response and how to dismantle your own triggers in this episode with Dr Jenn Phoenix Hatfield
About Kristine
Kristine Madera is an Amazon #1 bestselling author who writes fiction and nonfiction shaped by travel, culture, and lived cross-cultural experience.
Inspired while volunteering at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Calcutta, her novel God in Drag examines what happens when spiritual faith fractures in the sacred city of Varanasi. Read the first chapter of God in Drag HERE
She birthed her upcoming novel, The Snakeman’s Wife, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea.
Be on the lookout for her Etiquette Express Guides, a series of short, practical travel guides that help readers understand the customs, social expectations, and everyday dos and don’ts that make travel smoother and more connected.
Her travels have taken her across India, Asia, Europe, Australia, and Papua New Guinea as both a backpacker and Peace Corps Volunteer. A portion of her book proceeds supports cross-cultural education scholarships.
You don’t need to “master” a culture to move through it well.
You just need a few steady skills:
- How to stay curious,
- How to adjust without performing
- How to recover gracefully when you miss a cue—because we all do.
This free PDF guide gives you 12 simple, human skills you can use anywhere: whether traveling abroad, navigating a new city, joining a host family, starting a new job, or even re-entering your own life after a trip.



